The word ghetto hovered before my eyes. . .
28 February 1941
ARG I 977 a (Ring. I/897)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), handwritten (MS*), pencil, Yiddish,
148×210 mm, minor damages and fragments missing, 4 sheets, 4 pages. In the
margins the Hebrew letter “ ה.” On p. 1, sign “+” in red pencil. The document was
kept in a binder.
Edition based on the first copy of the duplicate, 2 sheets, 2 pages.
After April 1942, Warsaw ghetto, Yankl Henik. Testimony “ ”וואָס הערט זיך
[What’s new], recorded by Nekhemia Tytelman. Situation of the Jewish
population in the Radom ghetto; arrests, deportations to Auschwitz.
[1] What’s new
Yankl Henik had a visit in the middle of the night... He had paid 500 [zlotys]
for an identity card to come to Warsaw to his family, “without rights to return
to Radom”. He is a cobbler by profession, he believes he will get work, but
he is afraid to register himself under his own name... He recounts (arrived
yesterday):
As is known, Radom is divided into two ghettos: a larger and more populated
one on Wałowa Street and the smaller one, from Skaryszewska Street.⁴⁶²
From one ghetto to the other is 1 ½ km. The ghettos are closed, but not
enclosed. The exits are guarded by Jewish policemen. In order to go from one
462 Wałowa Street was the centre of the large ghetto, whose borders were marked by the streets: Reja, Mireckiego, Mleczna (also the Mleczna River), Piotrkówka, Przechodnia, Pereca, Narutowicza, Bernardyńska, Wałowa, Rwańska, Szwarlikowska. Both ghettos were closed on 12 April 1941. The small ghetto was in the town district Glinice, its borders marked by the streets Słowackiego, Złota, Biała, Wyścigowa, Kwiatkowskiego, Strzelecka, Staroopatowska and Fabryczna. Skaryszewska Street was not included. See S. Piątkowski, Dni życia, p. 179.
